Day Fifty One

Food
Breakfast - Coffee, overnight oats
Morning tea - Large capp on almond
Lunch - Mongolian beef with zucchini noodles
Afternoon tea- rest of oats, banoffee with two bananas.
Dinner - Avo pumpkin haloumi chicken salad with a fried egg thrown in. A can of Welder's Dog.

Exercise

Day Fifty

Food
Breakfast/morning tea- serve of the homemade mongolian lamb I meal prepped, coffee
Lunch- chicken avo haloumi roast pumpkin salad
Afternoon tea- soy lime and chilli crisp things
Dinner- pizzaaaaaa
3x Welder's Dog Pea Blossom cans of whatever they are
1 strawberry fat bomb

Exercise
Rest day, but planning on swimming in the canal this afternoon.

Day Forty Nine

Food
Breakfast- half jar of banana chia overnight oats, coffee
Morning tea/Lunch- Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon on sour dough, capp on almond
Afternoon tea- fresh watermelon and pineapple, watermelon tea, coffee
Dinner- 90 second bread with lettuce mix, tomato, veggie chicken schnitzel, sriracha, mayo, fried egg, mushrooms, bounty bite.

Exercise
3.17km in 15 minutes this morning around Westport High oval

Menu Planning for the Week

Zucchini Lasagne

Avocado Pumpkin Haloumi Salad 

Banana Chia Overnight Oats

 Easy Crispy Mongolian Beef

Keto Coconut Bars

Day Forty Eight

Food
Pre-swim watermelon, large capp at the pool
Breakfast nothing
Morning Tea veggie chicken schnitzel and salad on 90 second bread with sriracha and mayo
Lunch- chicken lovers box sushi
Afternoon Tea- mango coconut mousse
Dinner- One of my half-circle mold coconut keto bounty ball things after I finished making it. I used 85% dark and added white chia seeds in with the coconut. I also halved the amount of Natvia in the recipe. Tuna salad (bag of baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, grated cheddar, tin of tun in olive oil). Another bounty bite as I'm now calling them

Exercise
10 lengths of pool, walk to and from bus stop

Day Forty Seven

Food
Breakfast- Coconut cream mango mousse (just those two things in it), and half a chopped mango on top. Coffee
Morning tea- Raw broccoli and hummus, some leftover roast veggies from yesterday. Coffee
Lunch- Chicken salad (half a chicken breast, lettuce, raw green beans, raw broccoli, Green Goddess dressing)
Afternoon tea-Leftover cold roast lamb and some vintage cheddar, the dregs of roast pumpkin and sweet potato.
Dinner-Giant omelette, fresh beans and hummus, 90 second bread

Exercise
Walked to Bing Lee and back to get a new food processor ( got sunburnt too )

Day Forty Six Christmas 2018

Food
Breakfast- Bacon and eggs for breakfast with a coffee, another coffee,
Morning tea- bit of broccoli out of my salad in the fridge, more trifle coz it needs eating. I'm feeling pretty bloated today but I *think* that might be due to PMS.
Lunch- Roast lamb, sweet potato, carrot, potato (two pieces), fresh green beans, roasted bacon wrapped brussels sprouts, mango coconut mousse, 2 gin and sodas.
Afternoon tea- watermelon
Dinner- chicken salad. bit of roast lamb to snack on with dinner.

Exercise
1.7km jog, 10 bench dips, 10 crunch kicks, 10 side kicks, 20 side bends, 15 rear leg raises.


I can't go swimming tomorrow because the pool isn't open til midday. Might just do a half hour walk to rest my legs a bit, or some ZR5K training.

Day Forty Five

Food
Breakfast- bacon and eggs, coffee, more trifle. Yeah I know but there's so much of it and I seem to be the only one eating it.
Morning tea- banoffee
Lunch- leftover salad
Afternoon tea- coffee, broke off a bit of gingerbread
Dinner- Salmon something and salad.. or something, more trifle
two gin sodas with lemon and watermelon balls

Exercise
Rest day, can't be bothered. 

Day Forty Four

Food
Breakfast- banana and raspberry chia seed smoothie pre-workout, coffee post workout
Morning tea-
Lunch- Christmas lunch at Tom's parents. Roast chicken and vegetables, half a glass of prosseco, 2 sugar free lime sodas, a serve of my keto trifle, a small piece of gingerbread.
Afternoon tea- trifle
Dinner-chicken salad and more trifle

Exercise
1 hour walk along the water front. Got to pat a whippet doggo.
Before I went I did
40 crunches
20 starjumps
5 bicep ext. on each arm
10 lateral lifts
10 weighted squats
20 soup tin presses
5 push ups

Day Forty Three

Food
Breakfast- Coffee
Morning Tea- banoffee (yeah I know, but i've been in the kitchen doing food prep and cooking for an xmas lunch all morning)
Lunch- Slice of zucchini sweet potato slice I made this morning, half a chicken breast on a green salad with half a tomato.
Afternoon tea-Piece of veggie slice
Dinner- Pizzzaaaa

Exercise
Interval jogging/walking around my usual track, 40 crunches, 20 bicycle crunches, 15 fly, 40 soup tin presses, 12 bench dips, 20 jumping jacks, 20 squats. 

Day Forty Two

Food
Breakfast- an apple and a coffee
Morning tea- mouthful of mince, wasn't hungry
Lunch- Bacon and eggs
Afternoon tea- square of dark chocolate
Dinner- Big Mac Bites 
After Dinner- heap of huge lettuce leaves dipped in the special sauce for dinner, bit of cheddar cheese. Period is due, got the munchies.

Exercise
Rest day but walked to and from town

Day Forty One

Half a zucchini cheddar muffin, large capp with almond milk, honey dew melon, ceasar salad (no chicken) from in town while I was out, more honey dew melon. Dinner is Thai tonight.

Jogged/walked intervals around the block in 30 degree heat. Walking around town during day doing xmas shopping.

Day Forty

WOW Day 40!!! 20 more days to go and it'll have been 2 months already. Before I know it it'll be 6 months and I'll be able to look back and feel proud of the distance I've come.

I went swimming this morning, 4 laps (or 8 lengths?) of the Olympic pool as per my usual Wednesday routine. No food before I left, just a coffee. Then when I got back I had 3 bits of bacon and a fried egg with a banoffee smoothie. Holy shit banoffee is SO GOOD! One banana, full cream milk, teaspoon of dissolved instant coffee, and ice blended together. Lovely sweet treat loaded with energy. Lunch will likely be the last lost of steak fajitas I have in the fridge, not sure about dinner yet because grocery day is tomorrow, but I should be able to throw something together. The family is having spaghetti bolognese tonight so maybe I'll steal some mince to make up something with.

Food
Brekky- bacon and eggs, coffee pre swim than banoffee after
Morning tea- honey dew melon
Lunch- steak fajita
Afternoon tea- large capp on almond
Dinner- 3 carrots with hummus, tin of tuna, bit of cheddar, 2 strawberry fat bombs

Exercise
4 laps (or 8 lengths) of pool, walking to and from bus.

Hair cut today!! Getting something super different for me.

Day Thirty Nine

Food 
Breakfast- half jar of raspberry banana overnight oats
Morning Tea- carrot sticks and hummus
Lunch- 90 second bread toasted with a tin of smoked tuna
Afternoon Tea-
Dinner- Steak Fajitas and rest of carrots with hummus from earlier.
Cheese for snacks after Christmas lights adventure

Exercise
2 x jogging around Dixie Parks, 1 x walk around, 1 x walk/jog, then walking home.
Also= walked to and from art class

Day Thirty Eight

Food
Breakfast- spoon of chocolate avocado mousse, bacon and an egg
Morning tea- reg capp on almond milk
Lunch- Pork and veggies
Afternoon tea-2 tbs of avocado mousse
Dinner- Steak fajitas with handful of fresh sugar snap peas
Serve of avocado mousse (tastes WAY too sweet, but don't want to waste it) texture is really nice
Bit of cheese

Exercise
Walked the kids to and from day care morning and arvo, did Week 1 Day 1 of Zombies, Run! Couch to 5K which I'll use for cross training days on Monday's. I'll continue training to run harder on running days, and swim on Wednesdays.

Day Thirty Seven

Food
Breakfast- slept through it, had some camembert and cheddar with a little sundried tomato as a snack. Honey dew melon
Morning tea- nothing
Lunch- Oats I didn't have this morning
Afternoon Tea- nothing
Dinner-Mediterranean veggies and pork, avocado mousse

Exercise
1 hour walk today in the rain.

Day Thirty Six

Food
Breakfast- a punnet of raspberries, one strip of bacon, and a mouthful of crumbly cheddar cheese
Morning tea- nothing
Lunch- Going out to the Beach House with boyfriend and his mum for lunch, plenty of keto options on the menu but i'm thinking fish. Ended up having beetroot feta walnut and rocket salad. Wasn't great.
Afternoon tea- nothing
Dinner- Pork Mediterranean veggies in fridge, few slices of camembert, two squares of dark chocolate.
After dinner snackies- 100gm of fresh sugar snap peas. Mmm so crunchy

Exercise
It's a run day today, but it's much too hot to attempt that til late this afternoon.
Ran around my usual path, ran maybe 3/4 of more of it which I'm super proud of!! Nearly able to do it all in one go.

Day Thirty Five

Food
Breakfast- half jar of oats, coffee with cream
Morning Tea- nothing
Lunch- haloumi avo pumpkin salad
Afternoon tea- rest of my lunch, with pulled pork. Coffee with milk
Dinner- Sun dried tomato chicken I pulled out of the freezer

Exercise
Rest day

Feeling really bloated today in the stomach, sore internal organ to the left of stomach.

Day Thirty Four

half jar of oats, oats
large capp with almond milk
haloumi avo pumpkin salad and sparkling water
pulled pork BBQ keto pizza, few forkfulls of pork mixture
advent calendar tea with Natvia


Ran/walked around the school block. Ran the majority, I'm getting better at keeping a good pace for longer.

Day Thirty Three

Food
Breakfast- half jar of strawberry banana overnight oats before swim, an egg and two bits of bacon after swim. Coffee
Morning tea- Piece of cake at art class and a large capp on almond milk
Lunch- creamy sundried tomato chicken
Afternoon tea-haloumi pumpkin salad and sundried tomato chicken
Dinner- veggies from the fridge in some kind of meal I've yet to work out when I get hungry

Me waiting for the bus after going to the pool

Exercise
8 laps of the pool in 15 minutes or so, (a lap being from end to end once), walked into town and back for art workshop.

A lot of walking today

Here's a picture of me today from the art workshop to look back on later 

Day Thirty Two

Food
Breakfast- half jar strawberry banana overnight oats
Morning tea- large capp on full cream milk no sugar
Lunch- Steak Fajitas
Afternoon tea- tried to eat some avo haloumi pumpkin salad but not really hungry
Dinner- two eggs and bacon

Exercise
Some of these steps are me walking around Newcastle, most are me going for a run when I got home around the school block and home again. I managed to run the entire length of a song, 4 minutes. Got divorced today so I wanted to run off some of the residual stress from it all. If I can do that, I can do anything!
Swimming day tomorrow.

Day Thirty One

Food
Breakfast- Chicken kebab (chicken and salad stuff on a plate without the wrap), regular coffee at home before going into town
Morning Tea-Small capp on almond milk
Lunch-Nothing
Afternoon Tea-Nothing too hot and stressed I guess
Dinner-Sun dried creamy tomato chicken
After dinner- cup of advent calendar tea with natvia, a large cut up apple, some sharp and crumbly mersey valley cheddar.

Exercise
Walked kids to and from daycare, was meant to go for a run but I don't want to push myself today with court tomorrow. Bit light headed and too hot today so thought it best not to. Two rest days this week.

Meal prepped avo haloumi pumpkin salads x 3 for the week and 2 days of overnight oats with-
oats
coconut
sliced almonds
cocao nibs
pureed banana and strawberry
milk
chia seeds

had a helper while making salads, she scored a bit of haloumi and kept stealing bits of lettuce out of my containers. she's weird 

Tomorrow I'll be in Newcastle so I'll be taking a salad and a can of tuna with me along with my bottle of water.

Day Thirty and First Measurement Comparison

Measurements Day One
Thigh 71cm
Bum 122cm
Hips 121.5cm
Chest 119cm
Upper Arm 37.5cm

Measurements Day Thirty 
Thigh 69.5cm
Bum 118cm
Hips 117cm
Chest 113cm
Upper Arm 35cm
Waist 96cm (forgot to take waist measurement on day one)

Cm lost so far 
Thigh 1.5cm
Bum 4cm
Hips 4.5cm
Chest 6cm
Upper Arm 2.5cm

Total 18.5cm loss! YAY! 

Food
Breakfast- Half jar of choco coco oats with a peach chopped up on top, coffee
Morning Tea- 1/3 a piece of the chicken I meal prepped this morning (creamy sundried tomato)
Lunch- Steak Fajitas 
Afternoon Tea- Coffee, 1 strawberry fat bomb 
Pre-exercise around 4.45pm half an apple and a small square of dark chocolate
Post-exercise snack around 6pm- crumbly sharp cheddar, camembert, and thin sliced smoked salmon. I was at the shop and wanting an indulgent snack for tonight so I went for the cheese and fish option without crackers. I'm really proud of myself. 
Dinner- Pork steak with salad 

Exercise
30-60 minute walk is on the schedule today, will do that in my new shoes later. Will aim to walk to the fish scaling table today, it's been a few weeks. I don't need to run today but might run for the length of one song anyway and walk the rest. 
Bit stoked that a steady paced walk for about 5km isn't tiring me out anymore. I wasn't out of breath at any point during today's walk. 


I'll prep up my haloumi and pumpkin salads tonight, too. I'll be out a lot this week and will need to be prepared. EDIT- Might do that tomorrow, I'm super tired now. Little bit stressed about court on Tuesday but I'm doing my best to constructively deal with that stress. 

Day Twenty Nine

Food
Breakfast- half a jar of choco coco overnight oats (not sure I like them, banana ones are better)
Morning tea- Regular capp with almond milk from Gloria Jeans
Lunch- Slow cooked steak fajitas and a strawberry cheesecake fat bomb
Afternoon Tea-nothing
Dinner- Garlic prawn entree, then I had prosciutto wrapped chicken with camembert on top, broccolini, potato rosti, piece of garlic bread. 3 gin and sodas with a slice of lemon. I went out to have dinner with friends

I made a big batch of the steak fajitas this morning, it's ok, a little blander than I expected but there was a lot of liquid in there. I portioned it out into 6, had one for lunch, put 2 in the fridge, and put the other 3 in the freezer. I'll make the sun dried tomato chicken tomorrow and portion it all out as well, and make the salads for lunches this week. It's measurement recording day tomorrow.

Exercise
Went for a walk/run to Mandy's house about .8 kms away. Ran halfway. I want to aim to be able to jog the whole length of a song, then increase to two.

Tonight I'm meeting friends for dinner at Tapp Bar, I checked the menu online and found one dish that's keto-friendly, the seared scallops. I'm also planning on having either soda water with lemon, or a gin and soda with lemon. Just one though! I'm really looking forward to getting all dressed up and going out, I haven't seen this friend in a long time.

Day Twenty Eight

Food
Breakfast- Half jar of choco coco overnight oats with two strawberries cut up on top
Morning Tea- Small capp on almond milk at Gloria Jeans
Lunch- Serve of haloumi bake from the freezer
Afternoon Tea- Lime Ball
Dinner- Half a container of the chilli I had in the fridge with half an avo, a large handful of cheese, and an egg scrambled on top of it. Today was a fucking struggle at dinner with everyone else having Maccas. It's fine, they can do that, but I was so hungry and wasn't prepared. Nearly ate maccas tonight. Didn't end up wanting thai, didn't want to spend the money on it.
Advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon natvia and a cheesecake bomb for the cravings.

Exercise
It's meant to be a rest day so no active workouts, but I did walk into town to do some shopping then home again. Kid's have a Christmas party tonight and I'll likely get takeaway for them on the way home for the sake of ease, not sure what i'll have tonight yet, groceries don't arrive til tomorrow, maybe a thai beef salad or something.

On keto you WILL have people tell you that  eating some maccas is fine because someone knows other people on keto and they do it, but yeah those people are definitely wrong. Also it seems while most people will support you through the cravings and feeling like shit, others will just try to convince you they know best when really they're full of shit.

This journey is hard as fuck, but I'm on it now, I've overcome so much to get to this day, and I don't want to fuck it up now.

Menu Planning Meals

Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato Chicken 

Slow Cooker Steak Fajita 

Pumpkin Haloumi Avocado Salad

Avocado Mousse

BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza
https://www.simplystacie.net/2013/02/slow-cooker-pulled-pork-recipe/

Day Twenty Seven

Food
Breakfast- Before run 1 lime ball, then at 10am I had half a jar of overnight oats. Cacao, chia, almond, fresh strawberries, banana, almond/coconut milk, coconut.
Morning Tea- 1 peach
Lunch- 90 second bread with half an avocado, small handful of cheese and a fried egg toasted sandwich
Afternoon Tea- Nothing
Dinner-Serve of pork egg roll I had in the freezer (thank Odin!)
2 strawberry cheesecake fat bombs, advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon of natvia

Exercise
1km walk, 1km run. Also I took another photo for progress this morning and put into a comparison so here we go! I'll do measurements again on the 30th day.

Day Twenty Six

Food
Breakfast- Before swim, half a jar of choco coco overnight oats.
Morning Tea- After swim had two lime balls
Lunch- Yellow peach, four strawberries. Small amount of the chilli I'd just finished making. Not too hungry at the moment for much else.
Afternoon Tea-Cup of advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon Natvia. Nomatter how hard I try I just can't have herbal teas without a sweetener of some kind. Guess that's my vice!
Dinner-The rest of last night's salad (baby spinach, cucumber, cherry tomato, green goddess dressing, red onion, spring onion).

Exercise
This morning as cross training day I caught the bus to the pool at 7am for the first time, swam to one end and back 6 times over 15 minutes, got dried and dressed then caught the bus back to get home again at around 8.30am. I was in the slow lane and the old fellas were kinda amused by me because I was slower than them haha. Then we were out of milk so I walked around to Clifton to get that, too. My legs hurt now, and the pain of a new exercise will kick in later or tomorrow, I'm sure. Rest day tomorrow methinks instead of Thursday. Will run on Friday.

Today I'm going to cook up the chorizo chilli. Unfortunately I forgot I had to frozen zucchini slices defrosting on the sink yesterday instead of in the fridge so I'll have to throw them out. Really annoyed I let that happened.
1.30pm me- sweet ever loving fuck I'm tired.

EDIT wont be making that chilli again. Passata is FULL of sugar, as is tomato paste, and I just don't feel good eating that much meat per serving (which I ate too much of) I feel sick and salty and oily now. Didn't need to eat as much as I did. Also had some squares of dark chocolate because it's all I can do against running to Clifton now and getting a tub of ice cream. I ate two servings of chilli without realising and just ate like 1000 calories. I feel like I want to throw it up.

Day Twenty Five

Five more days until my first monthly measurements, and I'm nervous! What if after all the work I've put into changing my diet there are no changes? Is it realistic to expect there to be changes after a month of quitting sugar and doing regular exercise? I think so. I've had results within that time before. I'm just going to be thinking about what those measurements will be in 6 months time as I push to reach running 1km without stopping today. It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop!

So some changes I've definitely noticed since beginning this journey-

• My breathe smells worse most of the time, although I read that this is normal when in ketosis
• My nails are fantastic! Nice and healthy and strong
• My hair has been softer and growing a little faster, I know this because the greys at the roots are longer haha 
• I haven't been consistently bloated! That's a nice thing to experience. 
• My mood swings have been minimal, and what I feel is in a normal range of daily feeling. 
• I'm more energetic (though I wish the kids would let me get more sleep in the mornings, the tiredness of waking up so early is definitely there)
• I've been feeling more comfortable to tackle things that make me nervous like finishing my TAFE enrollment and not feeling anxious about my upcoming divorce hearing.  
• I was experiencing a daily bowel movement early in the morning that was diarrhea like (also can be normal on ketosis) but these fast two days I've been a bit constipated, which probably means I don't need to keep taking my iron supplement daily. 
• Willpower is harder to keep up all day every day over a consistent period of time than I thought. I thought I'd just spring into my exercise or turn my head away from tempting foods instinctively but it still needs a daily dose of motivation. Some days are harder than others. I just tell myself that every effort will add up and it's important to keep going now to see a change later. 
• My dandruff is gone. Not sure if that's related, but it's a thing!

Food
Breakfast- Pre-run Cheese and Zucchini muffin
Half a jar of banana chia overnight oats, sugarless instant coffee
Morning Tea- nothing
Lunch- Halloumi Bake
Afternoon Tea-1 lime ball
Dinner-pork egg roll in a bowl with a garden salad and pan fried halloumi
After Dinner- Cup of advent calendar tea with 3/4 teaspoon of natvia, 2 semi-circle servings of cheesecake fat bombs.

Exercise
Did 2km walking/running today. Smashed my first 1km! BARELY. But I got there. 
Tomorrow I've made a plan to go to the town pool and do some laps. I've got to take the bus somewhere I've never taken it to, and make sure I'm on the right side of the road to catch it home, and go swimming on my own in a place I haven't been to for years. But I'm determined to try! 

Day Twenty Four

Food
Breakfast- half a jar of banana chia overnight oats
Morning tea- small capp with almond milk, a lime ball
Lunch- Pork egg roll in a bowl
Afternoon tea- a strawberry cheesecake fat bomb, another lime ball
Dinner- halloumi bake and an egg

Exercise
Walking the kids to and from daycare, might do my Fast Car dance workout this afternoon as well as try some HIIT ahead of tomorrow's run.

Scratch that, my legs need a break. They're stiff and sore and I'm so tired and cranky I just know I shouldn't push it today.

Hey my nails and skin are doing great eating this way! My nails are so strong and aren't flaking at the ends, and my skin is so much clearer.

Day Twenty Three

Food
Breakfast- Slept past breakfast
Morning Tea- Also was asleep.
Lunch- Halloumi Bake and a one of my keto strawberry cheese cake bites
Afternoon Tea- too hot to eat but will have a spinach and cheese muffin before my walk

Dinner- Cold large homemade garden salad with a veggie chicken schnitzel and light greek dressing
After dinner- Cocoa, coconut, lychee, cinnamon white tea with half a teaspoon of natvia and a cheese cake bite
Exercise
30 minute walk and 30 crunches is all the heat will allow me today.

What I'm NOT doing...
Ok, I want to take a second to add something in here about my keto diet. I don't count carbs or sugars or calories in the foods I eat. Frankly that's too much for me to be bothered with doing. I'm not sticking to a recommended food plan. Literally all I'm doing is making as much food myself as I can with approved keto recipes (I check the ingredient list, some say they're keto but sneak in an ingredient or two that's full of sugar), only eating when I actually FEEL hungry, not eating more than I need in a serve (as soon as I feel full, or that I'm starting to verge on overreating for the sake of it I've learnt to stop), and I don't bother reading any of the countless websites that exist saying what IS ok for keto diets and what isn't because they are ALL different. I suppose I'm not on a strict keto diet as such, more that I've quit sugar and most carbs, and I'm using keto recipes all while training to run 5km as personal goal. Why the running goal? Because that shifts my focus from weight loss (which I don't want to become obsessive about) to being strong and healthy. I don't feel like 5km is an unrealistic goal for me, I gave myself until my birthday in April and I'm following a 5km training plan at a very beginner level. I figure the combination of having a fitness goal and learning to eat properly (and well!) after years of relying on food to cope with emotional issues will lead to weight loss but more importantly a long term healthy lifestyle that suits me rather than a short term 'diet' that could leave me yo-yo-ing my weight (and consequently my mental health and self esteem) indefinitely.

Day Twenty Two

Food
Pre-run Cheddar Zucchini muffin

Breakfast-While getting my cheesecake bites out of the freezer I tried one, yummy! They'll make a nice summer treat. It's 9.15 and I'm having a coffee and still not hungry for breakfast of overnight oats so I'll just wait til I am. Other half jar of banana overnight oats

Morning Tea-Nothing, had brekky late
Lunch-Had a few forks of my pork egg roll in a bowl, not really hungry yet so I'll have it later. Did have it later.
Afternoon Tea-1 lime ball

Dinner-Had grilled barramundi with three prawns and creamy garlic sauce with salad at Hog's Breath.
Snuck a spinach and cheese muffin and a cheesecake bite after dinner at home

Exercise
Ran/walked 1.37km around the block twice. Magpie attacks

Day Twenty One

Food
Breakfast- half a jar of banana chia overnight oats and coffee. Oats are still doing great at keeping me full for a few hours! A can't eat a full jar as one serve like the recipe suggests, it's just too much.
Morning Tea- Small capp from Gloria Jeans on almond milk
Lunch- Halloumi bake

Afternoon Tea- Almond meal 90 second bread avocado cheese toasted sandwich (with nuttelex butter)
Dinner-Thai

Exercise
Rest day! Walked into town and back to do some chores, that's all.

It's cheat night tonight but last time I got really bloated with water weight so tonight I'm getting Thai as a cheat meal. Low carb! I'm thinking Massaman curry or thai beef salad. All my groceries are arriving today from Woolworths and Grower's Market, I'm excited to cook new recipes this week! I bought a silicon mould just for cheese cake bombs today. Nom nom nom.

EDIT- the thai tasted too sweet and made me feel quite ill

Day Twenty

Morning me should stop writing down what afternoon me will do, I didn't do any yoga last night. I did walk kiddo to and from the dr, though, so that's something. My new normal for my period is apparently two days of spotting with super sore huge boobs? It's been two months of that now. Also I'm under some stress right now waiting to see how my centrelink payments will change, I'm worried I'll go back to not being able to afford to eat well (believe me, it's a thing), or afford quality running shoes. Just waiting for the outcome, it's perilously close to Christmas so it's stressing me out. Thank Odin I have running as an escape instead of turning to food, right? Channel that energy elsewhere.

Food
Breakfast- Other half of the jar of banana chia overnight oats, sugarless coffee on full cream milk
Morning Tea- 1 lime ball
Lunch- Half a baked avocado with egg inside, other half of serving of sweet potato fries
Afternoon Tea- last 2 lime balls
Dinner- Halloumi Bake with a serve of 90 second bread. I'll DEFINITELY be making that halloumi bake again, it's amazing.
After dinner- two squares of 70% dark chocolate with handful of strawberries

Exercise
I ran. I ran so much. Interval running/walking/jogging around the school block and back around the other way, with a final jog across the park. 

Post exercise me rang TAFE and sorted out one thing that was bothering me. 
I really need to sit down tonight and list what I'll be eating this next week. I'll list the recipes I find here. Anyhoo I'll make some more overnight oats tonight for the next couple of days. It gives me an amazingly long-lasting energy boost to do all that I need to do, I'm loving them for brekky. I'm going to have to look up some after dinner/Netflix munchie recipes, too. You might have noticed that's something I do at night when the kids have gone to bed. 

Halloumi bake again (it's soooo good)
Another lot of lime balls
Overnight Oats (I have all the ingredients and know-how for those now)
Salad with cooked chicken, beef strips, or salmon to have for lunches 
Cheddar and Zucchini Muffins for snacks 
I want to try this Keto Chorizo Chilli  and this
Pork Egg Roll in a Bowl 

Right, that's the easy part. Now to work out what ingredients I need that I don't already have, make a list, check it's in the budget, and order it all! Keto is great but holy shit it takes a lot of prep from meal planning to cooking.

Gonna try these Lemon Cheesecakes, too

Day Nineteen

Food
Breakfast- Half a jar of banana chia seed overnight oats
Morning Tea- Had 3 of my freshly baked sweet potato fries, not really hungry otherwise.
Lunch- Baked egg in half an avocado with some parmesan and curry powder. I'm out of salad ingredients which is really annoying. Sweet potato fries
Afternoon Tea-1 lime ball
Dinner- Halloumi bake
Snack while watching Youtube and Netflix- Rest of my homemade flax crackers

I spent a good part of the morning meal prepping food for the next few days. Happy hump day and it's closer to cheat day day to me! Still having brownish spots today, sore boobs, tired, cranky as fuck. Been up for too long already at 11am, gonna be a long day. Thanks to breaking my toe last night (I think) I won't be running today. Might do some Yin Yoga tonight.

Note to future self- Afterpay some running bare tights and get a proper shoe fitting. Bought a phone armband for running today.

Day Eighteen

Food
Breakfast- Choco coco overnight oats
Morning Tea- 1 fried egg with two rashers of bacon at Kid's Crazy Maze. I just got the sandwich without the toast while my friends had other foods. It was a real world test. Cup of coffee on full cream milk
Lunch- Salad and veggie slice
Afternoon Tea- 2 lime balls, a couple of flax crackers and a small handful of blueberries. 1 square sugar free fruit and nut chocolate.
Dinner- Last of the beet noodles with a veggie chicken schnitzel, cheese, on toasted almond bread.

I got my period today, bloated, sore boobs, teary, bleeding. It's all a bit shit. Today I without thinking added the two little packets of sugar to my coffee and had to go get another coffee. Luckily my partner had the first one so I wasn't wasting it. I couldn't drink it, it was just WAY too sweet. My friend said it's just two teaspoons of sugar, just have it it won't hurt, but it's those little ways that sugar snuck in and took such a hold of my life and I won't willingly consume refined sugar now I've come this far. I just don't want it anymore. The cravings have gone.

Exercise

Day Seventeen

Food
Breakfast-Choco coco overnight oats and a sugar free coffee as normal, on full cream milk.
Morning Tea-2 x Lime balls and chilled passionfruit tea. Some of my flax crackers
Lunch- Veggie slice and salad
Afternoon Tea-1 square of fruit and nut chocolate and some flaxseed crackers.
Dinner-Other half of the beetroot noodles I made last night with Parmesan on top and some 90 second bread.
After Dinner-Some stir fried chilli celery I whipped up tonight to use up the celery bunch. It's SUPER spicy! But I don't want to waste it. It's in the fridge as a side for the next few days.

Exercise
Morning-me notes that I walked my kiddies to daycare, and then went to the dr, then home again. I'm thinking cardio this arvo. My blood tests were all perfect, by the way! Whoop! Doc says check back in in 12 months time for another blood check but other than that just keep doing what I'm doing. And I plan on it! Every little effort helps. Every decision to work out, every healthy meal I prepare for myself, every bottle of water. I've come too far to stop now, I'm so determined not to come undone. I like this control over myself.
Afternoon-me has sore knees and doesn't really feel like exercising. But afternoon me will do the 'workout when you can't be fucked' one in my book. I can't remember what I did exactly but I think I did
20x fly
20x soup tin press
10x side leg lifts
10 x side leg lifts with side squat
4x 10 second planks
30x crunches
12x crunch kicks
10x side crunches
20x side bends
10x rear leg lifts on each side

Day Sixteen

Today I tried my first overnight oats. Immediately I didn't like them cold, but warming them up made them more palatable. Lacking any sweetness was hard but they WERE incredibly filling. Especially given there is only 4 tablespoons of oats and half a cup of milk per serve (along with coconut, almonds, cacao powder, and cacao nibs). I found I couldn't eat the last bite I was just so full! That's what you want out of a breakfast, isn't it? If there's a time to eat your carb serving within your low carb food intake then I think breakfast is the time to do it. If it gets me through to lunch time I'll be really happy! There are two more serves of that kind in the fridge, then I'll be making the banana chia ones. Today was also my first taste of cacao nibs and I really enjoyed them! I sprinkled them on top and enjoyed the crunchiness, I can see a lot of ways I can add them to other foods in the future. Yum!
For lunch today I have that slice I made yesterday in the fridge with a salad, and for dinner I'll be using up the remaining ricotta cheese, a roast beetreet, in a roast tomato zucchini pasta which I may toss a veggie chicken schnitzel through. I'm aware they fall under processed food but I'm not eating them everyday and they're handy when I don't have chicken in the freezer. For energy snacks if needed throughout the day I have homemade flax crackers and key lime balls. And as always, plenty of water!

Food
Breakfast- Choco coco overnight oats and a coffee with full cream milk and no sugar

Morning Tea- 3 flax crackers
Lunch- Slice with salad, 1 square of sugar free fruit and nut chocolate
Afternoon Tea-2 x lime balls and a square of 70% dark chocolate. Really enjoying the chocolate today.
Dinner- Zucchini and Beet ricotta noodles with a serve of 90 second almond bread

After dinner-Another 1 square of fruit and nut sugar free chocolate. Two giant sticks of celery with hummus dip

Exercise
Morning-blogger-me is aiming to do the rest of my Zombies, Run! mission from yesterday and a bit of cardio under the carport. Afternoon-blogger-me will check back in later.
Afternoon-me didn't go today.

Day Fifteen

Food
Breakfast- Optifast Shake
Lunch- Avocado and chicken salad from the Pelaton with coffee on almond milk
Square of lime dark chocolate
Dinner- Zucchini and sweet potato slice with salad and dressing
After Dinner- Snacked on a whole lot of my flaxseed crackers because I have been missing that crunch SO MUCH and they were fresh from the oven! They're so yummy. Another piece of slice that I really didn't need but over-ate with. I'm really full now, whoops. Eh, learning along the way, aren't I?

Ok so I'm food prepping the slice, three days of over night oats, and the key lime pie balls this afternoon and I want to make it known that this shit takes A LOT of preparation and it makes A LOT of mess. I have a small kitchen so it gets messy quickly. I really want to knock up as much as I can so I know which leftover herbs I need to make into paste,  and how many veggies I need to cook in other ways so I don't waste anything.

Lessons learnt- you have to GRIND the flaxseeds before you try and use them in anything. Didn't realise that til I'd added all the other ingredients and had to toss it all and try again. Second batch are in the oven now so fingers crossed!

Exercise

P.s, in case anyone is reading apart from just me... there is no Thermomix in my kitchen. All my foods I'm making from scratch and by hand. Tell you what, don't quite sugar unless you enjoy cooking! Holy Cow.

Day Fourteen

Food
Breakfast- 1 egg, 2 mushrooms, small amount of mozzarella cheese, salt and pepper omelet, 4 stalks of cooked asparagus. Coffee with no sugar and full cream milk

Morning Tea- Regular almond milk cappuccino and a choc brownie protein bar
Lunch- Other half of my broccoli soup from yesterday
Afternoon Tea-Optifast Shake. I did a lot of walking today and groceries don't arrive til tomorrow so I figured that'd do.
Dinner- Cheat night! Double bacon burger with chips covered in gravy from the corner store. Holy shit it was heaven. I feel guilty now, but it was so delicious.

Today is Friday and therefore cheat day! Naughty dinner tonight nom nom nom. I've ordered all the ingredients for the recipes I posted yesterday and I am SO excited to try them out!! Especially looking forward to those Flaxseed Crackers because boy, oh, boy am I missing crunchy things that aren't raw broccoli. Another thing to note is that the sugarless brain fog I was experiences has lifted thankfully, and I've been increasing my salt intake in foods (veggie stock in soup for example), and also I've been taking an iron tablet daily for the past three days and I can feel it making a difference. I get my blood test results on Monday which will help me even out what else I need to be healthy and function at my best.

 Exercise

Day Thirteen

Food
Breakfast-1 egg, baby spinach, 1 large mushroom, dill, small handful of mozzarella, dill scrambled. Coffee with no sugar

Morning Tea- Bar Counter Choc Mint protein bar
Lunch- Lettuce under a Moroccan veggie burger with roasted cauliflower puree spread on top

Afternoon Tea/Pre Workout-Optifast Shake
Dinner-Broccoli Soup, 1 square lime dark chocolate
Snack- Large amount of green beans with some leftover hummus
1 square of lime dark choc
About 4 bottles of water
So today is the last of my pre-prepared meals given I get paid tomorrow and will make other things for the next two weeks. Tomorrow is cheat night. Checking my Pinterest board for ideas I will buy ingredients to make the following-

Rosemary Sea Salt and Flax Crackers
Choco Coco Overnight Oats
Banana Chia Overnight Oats
Zucchini And Sweet Potato Slice
Tomato and Halloumi Bake   That site has terrible pop-ups, too many photos, and a virus pop up that forced me to restart my laptop. Not recommended.
Key Lime Pie Bars
Mediterranean Halloumi Bake
90 Second Bread

Exercise
Fast Car dance workout as a warm-up
20x Crunch Kicks
10x Weighted (2kg) Side Bend
10x Bench Dips
15x Moy Complex
10x Side Kicks on each leg
15x Rear Leg Raises
10x Soup Tin Press
15x Step-Ups on front step each leg
5x Fly
20x Crunches

Day Twelve

Food
Breakfast- A large mushroom, three cooked cherry tomatoes, a fried egg, four stalks of asparagus, four pieces of cut up pear.
Morning Tea- Other half of my pear from this morning
Lunch- Half a tub of fruit salad and handful of green beans dipped in hummus
Afternoon Tea-1 bliss ball and coffee with no sugar
Dinner-Cauliflower soup with Moroccan veggie burger and zucchini noodles

Exercise 
I chose to do the second recorded exercise routine in my notebook, but ran through it twice. I feel like I could have pushed a bit harder adding in another exercise so I'll write up a new routine for tomorrow.
10x Sidekicks (10 each leg)
5x Lunge on each leg
10x  Fly (reverse crunch)
30x Crunches
15x Bicep Curls
15x Moy Complex
6x Crunch Kicks
5x Skipping Rope (I'm not very good at it)
I did the above twice. 

Day Eleven

Food
Breakfast- 2 eggs, a splash of milk, a small handful of mozzarella cheese, a large cherry tomato, a large mushroom and a handful of baby spinach scrambled together. A coffee with full cream milk and no sugar.

Morning Tea- Half a large apple
Lunch- Green salad and Moroccan style veggie burger
Afternoon Tea- Other half of my apple, coffee with full cream milk and no sugar
Pre-workout energy- Optifast Shake
Dinner-Roast cauliflower soup
Two pieces of sugar free fruit and nut chocolate

I'm going to the Dr today to get weighed, and some blood taken to check all my vitamin levels, including iron. I'd like to have that managed and check in with him every so often to check my progress as I move toward my goal of jogging 5km by April. I've also decided that while I have a cold (am recovering thankfully) I'm going to set myself up a little workout station on the front step and reach my daily steps that way when I can't jog/walk 5km. I'm resetting my steps counter goal to 10,000. I wonder if Zombies, Run! would work jogging on the spot? I might try that this arvo. That'd be handy.

Afternoon-me had bloods taken and will check back in on Monday with the dr to see what my stats are like.

Exercise
 I finished the Zombies, Run! mission I had to abort last week, but just walking/jogging on the spot under the carport. Then I pulled out last year's work out book and started back on day one.
10x squats
12x supermans
10x rear leg raises (each side)
3x 10 second planks
30x crunches
6x bench dips
I found it hard as I'm currently 96kg and haven't done anything but walking/jogging in a long time.

Day Ten

Hi blog, here's today's entry

Food
Breakfast- One fried egg, a handful of wilted spinach, a large mushroom, half an apple with a spoon of peanut butter for dipping.

Morning Tea- small cappuccino on almond milk with no sugar, about 30g of almonds
Lunch- Green salad with a Moroccan style veggie burger chopped through
Afternoon Tea-Wasn't really hungry, had a square of sugar free chocolate
Dinner-Optifast Shake and a fruit salad
Snack- the other 30g of almonds from the packet earlier

Exercise
I have a head cold so the only exercise I did today was walking the kids to daycare, then wandering around the shops for a bit, then coming home. Morning-blogger-me has done about 6,000 steps (4kms). Afternoon-blogger-me has done that distance again. So around 8km today.

I've found a recipe for vegan healthy caramel apple cheesecakes on a page I follow on Instagram I want to make note of to try. In future I might do another page on my blog with recipes I want to try/have tried and sort them into categories of affordability, difficulty, taste etc. Highlighting to remind myself!

Day Nine

I'm feeling pretty sick today with this cold. My nose and head are feeling stuffy and I'm a bit sick in my stomach. I'm not going to exercise until I'm feeling better, not happy about that. I can keep trying to eat well in the meantime though, that's the main thing.

Food
Breakfast- Sugar free coffee with full cream milk, a large apple
Morning Tea- half of my container of salad and chicken, coffee with milk and no sugar
Lunch- salad and chicken
Afternoon Tea- few spoonfuls of coconut yoghurt and a bliss ball
Dinner- Optifast Shake
Snack- 1 piece of sugar free chocolate, a large handful of fresh green beans with 60g hummus

Day Eight

Food
Breakfast-Optifast Shake
Morning Tea- Fruit salad with a dollop of coconut yoghurt
Lunch-Optifast Shake, rest of this morning's fruit salad
Afternoon Tea- 1 bliss ball
Dinner-Optifast Shake, container of salad.
At the movies- a bottle of water, two pieces of sugar free chocolate.
About midnight when I got home from the Crimes of Grindalwald (which was crap, by the way) I was so hungry after being around all that popcorn and stuff that I had a container of my chicken and veggies.

Today is meal prepping day to restock the fridge, I also have a head cold that started yesterday and has worsened today. Sore throat, bit sick, stuffy runny nose, bit of a cough. I'm going to the movies tonight and it's my first real world test avoiding buying my usual maltesers and pepsi. I'll take a snack with me from home and have water with an infusion in.

 From top left Broccoli Soup with some Parmesan and chia seeds thrown in made with veggie stock. Salads with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, beans, avocado, cucumber, and a little French dressing. Pan fried in coconut oil chicken with wilted greens, fresh cherry tomatoes, roasted carrot and cauliflower. Fruit salads with apples, pear, mango, blueberries, and strawberries. And lastly a roasted butternut pumpkin soup with chilli powder and garlic. Both soups went into the freezer and the rest went into the fridge.

Day Seven

Wow. I haven't eaten bread in seven days! That's a thing. So today I have a sore throat, I am SO FUCKING TIRED, my nose is stuffy, I have no energy. The rest of the family have colds so I wouldn't be surprised if that's what I'm coming down with. It's day seven and I don't feel like I've lost any weight, I wouldn't know because I haven't weighed myself but I snuck out the measuring tape and measured my upper arm and thigh for reasons that are beyond me yesterday and they haven't changed. I don't know why I expected them to change after a week, I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I'm so disappointed now. Maybe I should get some scales or something? I don't want to become addicted to watching the weight, though. Eh.

Annnnyway.

Food
Breakfast- instant coffee, full cream milk, coconut sugar. Optifast shake.
Morning Tea-1 bliss ball, a hard boiled egg
Lunch- Optifast Shake
Afternoon Tea - Last pre-prepared serve of chicken stir fry. Protein bar mid afternoon. I am REALLY struggling today with hunger. I hate this.
Dinner- Optifast Shake

Dinner was actually an oven baked sandwich, 2 pieces of cheesy garlic bread, and two salted caramel mousses from Dominos.

Day Six

Food
Today was a real challenge for me as I had an RSA course at the community college. This meant I had to prepack my food the 6 hours while everyone else went to the takeaway across the road, or to the bakery. I made it through, only getting a skinny capp with no sugar this morning from the bakery.

Breakfast- Optifast shake, instant coffee with full cream milk, coconut sugar.
Morning Tea- Fruit salad
Lunch- Chicken veggie stir fry I made two days ago, 1 bliss ball
Afternoon Tea- Optifast shake (I couldn't have one at the course so I had it when I got home, I was pretty hungry!) Hard boiled egg. Two spoons of strawberry coconut yoghurt.
Dinner- Thai beef salad from the Thai takeaway down the street. Little to no fat and sugar, mostly salad and beef, no carbs. I thought as far as takeaway goes that's a safe option and also a treat.

Exercise
Walked to and from RSA even though it was only down the road. My blisters need to heal before I put my joggers back on again. Might do some dance workout tonight or yoga if I'm not too tired. I'm pretty buggered at the moment.

Feeling pretty discouraged about whether this is going to do anything. Having a Mirena in which caused me to put on weight is working against me, as are the 100mg of daily sertraline. I'll keep going though.

Night time me- I stole three pieces of my boyfriend's honey chicken from the fridge during the night. It was fried and sticky and sweet and delicious. Not sorry.

Day Five

Food
Breakfast- Optifast shake, a bottle of water with rose lemonade cold infusion tea bag, coffee with full cream milk and no sugar. I am drinking more than one bottle of water a day, I just forget to record how many to include in my posts.
Morning Tea- One square of sugar free Tahitian lime dark chocolate, which I thought I'd hate and have to get used to, but the rich cocoa flavour is nice and it melts in your mouth. I savour the taste rather than immediately feel like I need to eat more as I would with Cadbury milk chocolate. I'm guessing that's the absence of sugar. Fruit salad with table spoon of strawberry coconut yoghurt on it. I think coconut yoghurt itself would be a good food choice, but the addition of strawberry puree stuff probably increases the sugar levels making it not such a good choice. I'll be careful to only have the recommended serving until it's gone, then get plain next time. Handful of fresh green beans
Lunch- Optifast shake, a boiled egg. A square of dark chocolate.
Afternoon Tea- Serving of yesterday's chicken and veggie stir fry, a homemade bliss ball.
Dinner- Optifast Shake, pear.
Before bed snack (I get really hungry around 9-10pm)-The Counter Bar protein bar, chocolate brownie crunch.

Exercise
Due to big blisters on my feet I won't be doing a walk/run today. I start these posts in the morning and update them before publishing later in the day, so this is morning-me saying I'll do some at-home exercise tonight involving the Fast Car dance workout, maybe a happy mile walk, Yin Yoga, or even some Wii Just Dance. Just as long as I don't need to wear shoes. Ouch.
Afternoon me- I went anyway. I jogged at intervals for 1.6km and I'm glad I did it. But now my blisters have popped so no more for me til they heal.

As for meals for next week I'll continue with the shakes, but vary my snacks a bit with roasted spiced cauliflower, some homemade sweet potato chips, spinach, broccoli, and chicken or eggs in containers. I might look into some soup options, and some of the I Quit Sugar recipes I've used in the past.

I am struggling so badly with cravings and the food around me today... especially hot buttered toast which my kids are having, and the chips my boyfriend has in the cupboard. I told him I don't want him to feel like he can't have anything that I'm not eating myself, I think that's important, but it's soooo hard in these first few weeks saying no. Carbs are the hardest I think. That comfort and satisfaction I get from a cheese sandwich i'm missing A LOT. I'm not letting myself be too hungry, though. I'm just making sure that I snack on the right things.

Day Four

Food
Pre-Breakfast on way back from walk/run- Cacao and hazelnut raw protein bar and small cappuccino on full cream milk no sugar.
Breakfast- Optifast Shake
Morning Tea-1 homemade bliss ball and garden salad
Lunch- Optifast shake and 220g of watermelon and rockmelon
Afternoon Tea- 2 cups of raw broccoli with 60g of hummus dip
Dinner- Homemade chicken stir fry with super food veggie mix and sauce made with soy, sesame, peanut butter, and a little honey, with zucchini noodles. Pear
I just want some meat tonight, I feel like I need a little more than a shake at the moment. I'm struggling with cravings and the sugar withdrawal so I'm trying to combat that best I can. I almost ordered pizza for tonight because I was hungry and stressed, but I pulled out a prepared tub of broccoli and dip instead. That kind of behaviour and thinking is what got me to this weight in the first place, it'd do me no good reverting to that on day four. I've gotta keep looking ahead to the future and working on the long run. It's less about struggling day to day with the new adjustments, and more about reminding myself that for this to work, and for me to look at a before and after photo in 6 months time and see a difference, I absolutely need to stick to it daily. I can do this.

Exercise

This morning I didn't eat before going out to exercise, just had an instant coffee at home with coconut sugar as usual, and I had to stop the Zombies,Run! app halfway through because I felt very faint. I very slowly walked to settlement city and had a protein bar, water, and a coffee. I had a shake when I got home. Next time I go in the morning to exercise I'll remember to eat something first.

Day Three

Food
Breakfast- Optifast shake, coffee with full cream milk and coconut sugar.
Morning Tea- Regular cappuccino on almond milk, no sugar. Half a mixed nut snack pack with dried cranberries, yogurt sultanas, and almonds. Leftover fruit salad from last night.
Lunch- Optifast Shake
Afternoon Tea- Garden salad, lots of water with new Tetley cold water infusion sachet, a small handful of nut and fruit mix from earlier (still some left in fridge), 3 small carrots cut up and dipped in 60g of hummus
Dinner- Optifast Shake
Dessert - 2 homemade bliss balls made with medjool dates, coconut, coconut oil, cacao powder, and chia seeds.

Exercise
Walking the kids to and from daycare. Approx 8kms there and back twice.

Day Two

Food
Breakfast- Coffee with full fat milk and coconut sugar (can't go without my morning coffee, can change milk to skim, though) and Optifast Shake
Morning Tea - Fruit Salad with green tea (discovered I hate green tea)

Lunch- Optifast Shake
Afternoon Tea- Salad
Dinner- Optifast Shake, 1 cup of broccoli with leftover hummus dip. Bit more fruit salad. Mug of passionfruit tea
Exercise

Day One

This is really just for me but if anyone else is reading then I hope you'll be supportive as you follow along. Today is day one of my Optifast journey and in this post I will records my measurements in cm, what exercise I do today, and what I eat and drink. I won't be weighing myself though because I don't own scales. I'm not really sure what my schedule for recording my progress will be yet, I'll figure out what works as I go. Maybe I'll aim record measurements once a month, food and exercise daily, and a progress photo after 3 months.

Food
Breakfast- Coffee with full fat milk and teaspoon of coconut sugar
Chocolate Optifast shake
Morning Tea- Strawberry and Rhubarb tea (no sugar) and one cup of raw broccoli with 60g of hummus dip.
Lunch-Optifast Shake
Afternoon Tea- Mandarin
Dinner- Optifast Shake and a salad. Some mango, and a Protein raw chocolate bar before bed.

Measurements
Thigh 71cm
Bum 122cm
Hips 121.5cm
Chest 119cm
Upper Arm 37.5cm

Exercise
None